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{{short description|Emirati children's author}}
'''Qais Sedki''' ({{langx|ar|قيس صدقي}}) is an [[Emiratis|Emirati]] children's author. The first volume of his Arabic [[comic]] ''[[Gold Ring]]'' won the [[Sheikh Zayed Book Award]] for Children's Literature in the year 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zayedaward.com/en/News2D_en.aspx?NID=363|title= Sheikh Zayed book Award Winners of "Literature" and "Children’s Literature" announced}}</ref>

Sedki left his [[Information technology|IT]] job to pursue a career in comic book writing. He founded Pageflip, a [[Dubai]]-based [[Publishing|publishing house]] that publishes his work.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pageflip.ae/pageflip.html|title=Pageflip Publishing|website=www.pageflip.ae|access-date=2017-01-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100202063114/http://www.pageflip.ae/pageflip.html|archive-date=2010-02-02|url-status=dead}}</ref> He has three children.

He also has a master's degree in business administration from the [[American University of Sharjah]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Qais Sedki - Sheikh Zayed Book Award|url=https://www.zayedaward.ae/en/previous.editions/winners/qais.sedki.aspx?year=2010 |access-date=21 October 2019}}</ref>

== References ==
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